{"id":3087197,"date":"2026-01-28T09:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=3087197"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:59:06","slug":"with-apples-new-creator-studio-pro-ai-is-a-tool-to-aid-creation-not-replace-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/28\/with-apples-new-creator-studio-pro-ai-is-a-tool-to-aid-creation-not-replace-it\/","title":{"rendered":"With Apple\u2019s new Creator Studio Pro, AI is a tool to aid creation, not replace it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Generative AI apps that can create photos, videos, songs, and more are growing in popularity. But with the release of Apple\u2019s new Creator Studio Pro suite<\/a>, available to the public on Wednesday, the tech giant has approached the addition of AI as a tool that aids in the creator process but doesn\u2019t attempt to replace it.<\/p>\n\n

Instead, Apple lays out a vision that suggests the productivity suite of the future is the one that focuses on the needs of creators — whether that\u2019s filmmakers, musicians, artists, or anyone else enmeshed in a creative industry of some kind — and empowers them to be more efficient using AI. <\/p>\n\n

It’s tricky to bring AI into the world of creativity, given the backlash and even legal action from creators who are angry about AI models training on their works, then reproducing similar art or creative content in the AI systems’ output.<\/p>\n\n

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Apple, however, sees AI as a tool that handles more of the basics and tedious tasks — like generating a slideshow for you to edit from your notes, extracting chord information from a song, searching across hours of video footage for the clip you need, changing the camera angle on your images, and more. <\/p>\n\n

The tools in Creator Studio Pro are not new, but they’ve never been packaged as a subscription product, which is now available at $12.99 per month or $129 per year. <\/p>\n\n

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Included in the subscription are Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor for video editing; Logic Pro and MainStage for music creation; image editing tool Pixelmator Pro; and a set of exclusive features in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform. The suite also includes the newly launched Pixelmator Pro app for iPad.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

While Apple\u2019s traditional productivity software applications haven\u2019t caught up to those from Google and Microsoft, the tech giant has always found more success in the creative fields. And with the addition of AI features, the company likely sees the possibility of making its creative software more accessible to those who aren\u2019t fully professionals \u2014 like an indie musician or artist who wants to improve their marketing and sales, those who quickly compile video footage to post on social media, or those who want to create music or art and edit the output.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Whether Apple’s tools are the right ones for the job compared with Adobe products will depend on the user’s specific needs and their familiarity with professional creative tools. <\/p>\n\n

Each tool in the suite has received its own series of upgrades timed with this launch, both AI and otherwise. Notable additions include:<\/p>\n\n